Nova Patents
US8036343B2

Audio and data communications system

Summary by NHIP

Wireless hearing assistance system

The system couples multiple communicators over a local area wireless network to provide selectable communication links between users. Each communicator includes circuitry performing wide band compression, equalization, adaptive noise reduction, adaptive wind noise reduction, adaptive microphone polar pattern selection, speech recognition, and external source selection.

Claim Score by NHIP

Read claim 1, the broadest

Abstract

A communications system is disclosed that allows users to effectively communicate.

US8036343B2, drawing sheet 1
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Term

Projected expiry 9 April 2029.

  1. Priority
  2. Filed
  3. Granted
  4. Today
  5. Projected expiry

19 claims: 2 independent, 17 dependent

  1. 1
    Broadest claimClaim Score 43, average(NHIP)A system comprising:multiple communicators coupled to each other over a local area wireless network, each of the multiple communicators comprising a microphone and a speaker operatively coupled to a signal processor, circuitry for assisting a hearing impaired person, and a graphical user interface depicting one or more available communication links associated with other communicators or an external source and wherein the available communication links can be selectively enabled by a user;a controller operatively coupled to each of the communicators to provide a selected communication link between the communicators;and, wherein the circuitry for assisting a hearing impaired person performs at least two functions from the group comprising: wide band compression;equalization, adaptive noise reduction, adaptive wind noise reduction, adaptive microphone polar pattern selection;speech recognition;and selection of said external source.
  2. 14
    A system comprising:a first remote unit comprising a receiver and a hearing aid circuit operatively coupled to a speaker wherein said circuitry is for assisting a hearing impaired person;a second remote unit comprising a transmitter operatively coupled to a microphone;a base unit comprising a transceiver unit and relaying wireless transmissions from the second remote unit to the first remote unit over a local area wireless network;and, a graphical user interface depicting one or more available communication links associated with other devices and wherein the available communication links can be selectively enabled by a user;and, wherein the hearing aid circuit performs at least two functions from the group comprising: wide band compression;equalization, adaptive noise reduction, adaptive wind noise reduction, adaptive microphone polar pattern selection;speech recognition;and selection of an external source.
Independent claims2